[ic] Preparing Orders

Fri Dec 13 12:58:01 2002

Ed LaFrance wrote:

> At 01:20 AM 12/13/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>
>> Does IC provide any tools for packaging the orders once they are 
>> received?  Specifically, can IC print shipping labels or packing 
>> slips for the order that is about to be shipped?  If IC doesn't 
>> provide tools for this, how do you all usually handle this?
>>
>> Thanks
>
>
> I did alot of work last year for one client who hosted their own 
> webserver, which was connected to their LAN and configured to allow 
> some communication with other devices and systems in their network. We 
> wrote some utilities for printing mailing labels, packing slips, etc 
> out of the UI, both transactionally and in batch mode, just by hooking 
> our own custom UserTags and Globalsubs into the existing code.

Any chance this code is available to the public. :-)

> There is a wealth of modules on CPAN for all manner of plain text and 
> Postscript printing of forms and labels to supported devices, and 
> Linux has all the daemons and tools you need to talk to those devices. 
> So the main thing is having that LAN or VLAN presence, the rest is 
> just a matter of putting the pieces together.
>
It's not so much the printing or sending to the printer, but the 
preparing and presenting the data on the packing slip or mailing 
labels.  Is there a module or similiar to  get the particular data for 
an order out of  IC.  Speciaifcally, when viewing an Order a button  or 
something saying "Click here to Print Packing Slips and Label".  Maybe 
something that could expect a certain type of label or packing slip 
format.  I realize this is difficult to do in HTML because you do not 
have exact control over placement of text on an HTML page.

I am just wondering what others do.  How do people get an order from the 
IC administration screen to a sealed box ready to be shipped? 

Thanks,
Michael

>
> - Ed L.
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